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Present Status of Graduate Degree Requirements in Business Administration and Business Education in Fifty-Eight Colleges and Universities in the United States

Description: This study attempts to review comprehensively the present status of admission and degree requirements for graduate degrees in the business fields and in the commercial teaching field of secondary and collegiate education. It also seeks to ascertain graduate areas of concentration available in business administration and business education and to determine what graduate courses dealing primarily with business education are offered.
Date: 1949
Creator: Bender, Robert F.
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Reactions of Regular Personnel to Junior Executive Training Programs in Selected Oil Companies

Description: This thesis has as its primary purpose determining what, if any, resentment toward junior executive programs may exist among regular or "old" employees of a selected group of petroleum companies in the Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Port Neches area of Texas. At the same time, measures taken in these companies to cope with the problem will be studied and appraised.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Lumbley, John H.
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Religion in Industry

Description: The purpose of this study is to outline to interested employers and employees the developments that have taken place in the establishment of religious programs within industry. This study should stimulate thinking as to whether or not such a program will develop better inter-personal relationships in working situations.
Date: 1957
Creator: Hess, Edward W.
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Service Rating Used in Manufacturing Plants of Dallas County, Texas

Description: This study is an effort to review and compare the qualities of service ratings currently being used in the manufacturing plants of Dallas County, Texas, with the recommended qualities for service ratings as set forth in the sources available in the North Texas State Teachers College Library. Also, individual service ratings selected from the group under study will be compared to each other and discussed in detail.
Date: 1949
Creator: Freeland, Donald Keith
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Situation-Type Problems for Use in Elementary Accounting

Description: The problem of this study is to develop a series of "situation-type" problems to be used in the teaching of the first course in elementary accounting at North Texas State College. The solutions for the problems were prepared contemporaneously with the problems to save the instructor's time when the problems are used. These problems are to include the phases of accounting of theory and principles in addition to the recording and classifying.
Date: 1957
Creator: Henderson, Porter Wyatt
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A Study and Case Analysis of Selected Current Problems of Electronic Parts Wholesalers

Description: The purposes of this study will be to determine and pinpoint the problems of greatest current significance in electronic parts wholesaling; to describe and analyze the problems selected, utilizing case illustrations where needed to more effectively present the problem or possible solutions to the problem; and to indicate possible means of solving each problem.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Thornton, Nelson LeRoy
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A Study of Contemporary Franchising, with Particular Emphasis on Factors Leading to the Repurchase of Fast-Food Service Franchises

Description: This study explores the question of whether repurchasing of service establishments is an inherent characteristic of service franchising. The answer to this question holds substantial consequences for the economy and for public policy toward franchising.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Tinnery, Terry Jack, 1942-
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A Study of Denton's Shopping Goods Trade Losses to Dallas and Fort Worth

Description: "The primary objective of this study was to determine the proportion of shopping goods trade Denton merchants are losing to other cities. A secondary objective was to find reasons for the loss of trade. Since Denton is within the trade orbit of Dallas and Fort Worth, special emphasis was placed on finding the percentage of trade going to these two cities...The major finding of this study is the indication that approximately 81 percent of Denton's retail shopping goods trade is actually done in … more
Date: August 1953
Creator: Anderson, Roy C.
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A Study of the Duties of the Deans of Women in the Seven State Teachers Colleges of Texas

Description: The problem undertaken is a study of the duties of the deans of women in the seven state teachers colleges of Texas, their relationship to other members of the faculty, and special problems with which they are confronted. The study also includes a discussion of routine office duties, dormitory duties, public relations work, academic teaching, social duties, and the main professional satisfactions of the position.
Date: 1947
Creator: Greer, Nora Jane
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A Study of the Gainsville Junior College as it Compares with the Other Municipal Junior Colleges of Texas

Description: The problem undertaken in this study is a comparison of the Gainesville Junior College with the other municipal junior colleges of Texas. There are many ways in which this comparison could be made, but to attack the problem from every angle would involve too many problems. Therefore, only the instructional staff, the curriculum, the plant facilities, the extracurricular activities, and the costs to students in these junior colleges will be considered.
Date: 1950
Creator: Lucas, Lois Greer
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A Study of the Minimum Salary Commission of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church

Description: "This paper is limited to a study of a sample of churches receiving support from the Commission on Minimum Salary of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church. It is further limited to the phases of membership, budgets, World Service, and minimum salary. The period to be covered is the four years from June, 1949, to June, 1953, during which time the Commission operated under the same principles and officers."-- leaf 1.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Traster, Elden Douglas
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A Study of the Outstanding Skills and Personality Traits Desirable in Office Workers

Description: The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to find out the qualities employers expect in beginning workers, (2) to investigate the importance attached to personality by some writers in the literature of the business education field, and (3) to compile information that will be of aid to students of Dallas Technical High School in developing the needed personal qualities and skills.
Date: 1949
Creator: Wolf, Clara
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A Study of the Retail Trading Area of Denton, Texas

Description: "The purpose of this study is to find what information is available from secondary sources on retail trade areas and to assemble and analyze it so that the information will be of value to those interested in the economy of the area...the following general conclusions are drawn: 1. The Denton retail trade area is primarily agricultual. Indicators of this fact are so many and so definite that there is little doubt but that agriculture and the rural population of the area will affect, to a conside… more
Date: June 1951
Creator: Brooks, John M.
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A Study of the Shopping Goods Trade Flow from Lewisville, Lake Dallas, Sanger, and Valley View, Texas

Description: "The purpose of the study is to determine the trading centers that receive significant amounts of shopping goods trade flow from the communities surveyed. The position that the Denton trading center holds as a source of shopping goods for households in these communities is compared with the postions held by some competing trading centers. This study is made in cooperation with the Denton Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of the merchants of Denton. It is based on a survey made in December 195… more
Date: August 1955
Creator: Robinson, David Charles
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A Study to Determine Criteria for Predicting the Success of Less than "C" Average Transfer Students in North Texas State College.

Description: An important problem in the field of education is determining the criteria by which academic success of students can be predicted. This study sets up criteria for predicting the success of a comparatively small group of students, those who have attended one or more other colleges and have made less than a "C" average in all subjects attempted at those other colleges before enrolling at North Texas State College.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Honea, Robert Lynn
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